Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
Book Details
- Publisher : Vintage
- Published : 2005
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 24721
- ISBN 13 : 9781400079230
- ISBN 10 : 1400079233
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The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for modernity in the twentieth century - though its durability in the twenty-first may now be in doubt. More than a hundred years after the publication of Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams", we're no longer in thrall, says cultural historian Eli Zaretsky, to the romance of psychotherapy and the authority of the analyst. Only now do we have enough perspective to assess the successes and shortcomings of psychoanalysis, from its late-Victorian Era beginnings to todays age of psychopharmacology. In "Secrets of the Soul", Zaretsky charts the divergent schools in the psychoanalytic community and how they evolvedsometimes under pressurefrom sexism to feminism, from homophobia to acceptance of diversity, from social control to personal emancipation. From Freud to Zoloft, Zaretsky tells the story of what may be the most intimate science of all.
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Eli Zaretsky is a professor of history at the New School for Social Research. His previous works include Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument; Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis; and Capitalism, the Family, and Personal Life.
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